Adds best-effort Surface System SKU resolution and persists it into driver mappings to reduce model-name ambiguity during deployment.
Speeds up Microsoft model discovery by using a local cache and updates cached Download Center details during driver downloads to keep the UI responsive.
Prefers System SKU-based rule selection for Microsoft devices, falling back to legacy model-string matching when SKU data is unavailable.
Extracts duplicate folder removal code across multiple driver modules (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft) into a centralized `Remove-DriverModelFolder` helper function. This new utility includes safety checks to prevent accidental deletion of the drivers root directory or paths outside the drivers folder hierarchy.
Also moves model path construction in the Microsoft driver module earlier in the function to ensure consistent path handling before any operations that might fail.
Benefits improved maintainability, reduces code duplication, and adds protective safeguards for destructive operations during error handling.
Enhances HP driver handling to properly track and display SystemId alongside ProductName throughout the driver workflow.
Parses SystemId from HP PlatformList.xml and creates unique entries per ProductName/SystemId combination to avoid conflicts when multiple models share the same product name but different system identifiers.
Updates driver lookup and metadata preservation to include SystemId, MachineType, and ProductName fields across download tasks and result processing, ensuring this information persists through JSON import/export operations.
Improves display name generation to show "ProductName (SystemId)" format for HP models when both values are available, providing clearer model identification in the UI and configuration files.
Standardizes driver metadata handling by replacing simple Make lookups with comprehensive driver metadata lookups that preserve all relevant fields for Dell, HP, and Lenovo vendors.
Improves consistency in how driver model names and identifiers are processed for different manufacturers (Microsoft, Dell, HP, Lenovo) throughout the codebase.
Introduces helper functions to extract base names from display names and construct standardized display names with identifiers in parentheses format.
Centralizes the logic for converting driver items to JSON model objects, eliminating code duplication across save and download operations.
Enhances validation during driver import and processing to skip invalid entries with missing required fields like MachineType for Lenovo or empty model names.
Ensures proper parsing of model names containing parenthetical identifiers (e.g., "Product Name (Type)") and extracts components correctly for each vendor's requirements.
Removes obsolete CabRelativePath property from Dell driver handling.
- Implements detailed failure tracking for driver downloads, capturing model names and statuses for failed attempts.
- Updates logging to provide clearer messages for both successful and failed downloads, improving traceability.
- Modifies the user interface to display comprehensive error messages when downloads fail, including a summary of failed models.
- Ensures that all exceptions during download and extraction processes are logged and thrown, preventing silent failures.
- Client OSes will now use CatalogIndexPC.xml to identify which ProductLine_SystemID.xml to use to identify which drivers to download. This is inline with how DCU works.
- In the UI, Dell Model names now show the full product line, model number, and system ID in the model column.
- There are many more models now shown due to breaking each model out by systemID (one model will have many systemIDs).
- Downloads per model should be much smaller as prior code was downloading drivers for models that Dell had reused their model number (e.g. Precision/Inspiron/Latitude/Vostro 3520 would result in a very large driver download)
- Dell driver downloads are best effort based on the data from the XML files. In some cases the Dell support website may show a newer driver than what is downloaded. This is rare, but in testing I've seen one or two drivers per model where the XML doesn't have what's listed on Dell's website. Again, rare, but not unexpected.
Implements a deferred cleanup mechanism for driver source folders when they are compressed to a WIM and also used for WinPE.
When drivers are compressed, the original source folders are now preserved if they are also needed for WinPE driver injection. A marker file is created in these preserved folders.
A new cleanup step is added after the WinPE media creation to remove these preserved folders, ensuring they are available when needed but not left behind permanently.
Adds standard PowerShell comment-based help blocks (synopsis and description) to all UI and common library script modules (`.psm1`) and the main UI entry point script (`.ps1`).
This improves maintainability and discoverability by documenting the purpose of each script file. Also removes various redundant or commented-out code blocks.
Adds a "Threads" setting to the UI, allowing users to control the throttle limit for parallel tasks like driver and application processing.
This introduces a new textbox in the build options and updates the parallel processing function to use this configurable value instead of a hardcoded one.
Input validation is also added to ensure the threads value is a valid integer and is at least 1. The new setting is integrated into the configuration save/load functionality.
Adds a feature to automatically save the selected drivers to `Drivers.json` upon download, preserving the user's selection for future use.
Improves script execution by:
- Ensuring the disk cleanup process completes before proceeding.
- Suppressing progress bars globally for a cleaner console output.
- Hiding non-critical warnings during driver installation.
- Removing an unused BITS transfer function and trailing whitespace.
Adds a `DriverMapping.json` file to automate driver injection during image deployment.
Driver download tasks now generate or update this mapping file with the relative path for each successfully downloaded driver package.
The deployment script now uses this file to automatically detect and select the correct drivers for the target hardware, removing the need for manual selection. The manual driver selection prompt is retained as a fallback.
Updates the download function to source selected drivers from the complete data model instead of the UI's filtered view.
This corrects an issue where selected drivers would be excluded from the download operation if they were hidden by a filter.
Moves the Dell catalog download and preparation logic from the individual driver download task to the parent function.
This prevents a race condition where multiple parallel tasks would attempt to download and extract the same catalog file simultaneously. The catalog is now prepared once before any driver downloads begin, improving efficiency and reliability.
Additionally, comments out manual garbage collection calls in the VM build UI.
Extracts the driver download implementation from the button click event handler into a new `Invoke-DownloadSelectedDrivers` function.
This change improves code modularity and maintainability by separating the business logic for downloading drivers from the UI event handling code. The event handler is now simplified to a single function call.
Extracts the model fetching and UI update logic from the button's click event handler into a new, reusable `Invoke-GetModels` function.
This refactoring improves code organization by separating UI event handling from the core application logic, leading to better readability and maintainability.
Refactors the driver selection UI to enhance stability and performance by changing how the underlying data source is managed. Creating and re-assigning a new list when data changes, rather than modifying the bound collection in-place, prevents UI inconsistency errors.
- Updates the model search to use the native WPF `CollectionView.Filter` for more efficient and reliable filtering.
- Fixes an issue where HTML entities were not decoded in Microsoft driver model names.
- Ensures selected drivers from one manufacturer are preserved when fetching models for another.
- Centralizes driver-related button event handlers into the core initialization module.
Renames functions for better semantic clarity:
- `Refresh-WindowsSettingsCombos` becomes `Initialize-WindowsSettingsCombos` to better reflect its role in initial UI setup.
- `Filter-DriverModels` becomes `Search-DriverModels` to more accurately describe its use in user-driven model searches.
Enhances code readability in the UI script through consistent formatting of event handlers and multi-line script blocks.
Relocates driver-specific download, parsing, and management logic from the main UI script and the FFUUI.Core module into new, dedicated modules for each manufacturer (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft). This improves modularity and code organization.
Additionally, centralizes common HTTP headers and user agent strings in the FFUUI.Core module, accessible via a new helper function.
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